Perhaps graffiti artist Banksy’s most famous piece, made not far from Ground Zero, remains a fitting memorial to that day. Living in NYC, we cannot look south without thinking of the towers… photo: Nic Garcia for Gothamist
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For NYC on the Day of a Building Collapse
This morning eight blocks south of here, two old apartment buildings had collapsed after a violent explosion, near a heavily-trafficked intersection of Harlem. I knew that for some people, as ordinary as me, their lives had been profoundly changed or lost in a moment this morning.
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jane goodall: trees as shaman and guide
Cara de Silva sent alerted us to Smithsonian’s wonderful Jane Goodall Reveals Her Lifelong Fascination With…Plants?. Here is a particularly illuminating chunk, about a tree (which has come to be one of the most commented on subjects by our readers). If you don’t have time to read it all at once, it’s worth bookmarking: Just…
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